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住在60年前买的老宅,早餐只吃麦当劳!千亿富豪巴菲特的“清贫

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0:00Warren Buffett is worth roughly $147 billion, yet somehow the man still lives like he's poor.沃伦·巴菲特价值约1,470亿美元,然而不知何故,他仍然像穷人一样生活着.
0:08He drives ordinary cars, eats cheap fast food, lives in the same house he bought decades ago,他开普通的车 吃便宜的快餐 住在他几十年前买的房子里
0:14and famously hates wasting money.和著名的讨厌浪费钱。
0:17But why does a man with billions choose to live this way?但为什么一个有数十亿的人会选择这样生活呢?
0:20Let's go through it.让我们通过它。
0:21The billionaire in the $31,500 house.31500元房里的亿万富翁.
0:23Picture a quiet corner lot in画个安静的角落
0:27Omaha, Nebraska.奥马哈,内布拉斯加州.
0:29There's a stucco house built back in 1921, with trees out front and a fence1921年建了一座史图科房子 前面有树和栅栏
0:34around the edge.围绕边缘。
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1Warren Buffett is worth roughly $147 billion, yet somehow the man still lives like he's poor.沃伦·巴菲特价值约1,470亿美元,然而不知何故,他仍然像穷人一样生活着.
2He drives ordinary cars, eats cheap fast food, lives in the same house he bought decades ago,他开普通的车 吃便宜的快餐 住在他几十年前买的房子里
3and famously hates wasting money.和著名的讨厌浪费钱。
4But why does a man with billions choose to live this way?但为什么一个有数十亿的人会选择这样生活呢?
5Let's go through it.让我们通过它。
6The billionaire in the $31,500 house.31500元房里的亿万富翁.
7Picture a quiet corner lot in画个安静的角落
8Omaha, Nebraska.奥马哈,内布拉斯加州.
9There's a stucco house built back in 1921, with trees out front and a fence1921年建了一座史图科房子 前面有树和栅栏
10around the edge.围绕边缘。
11The kind of house you'd drive past without slowing down.你开车经过的这种房子不会减速
12You wouldn't guess that你不会猜到的
13one of the richest human beings who has ever lived has been walking through its front door曾经住过的最富有的人之一 一直走进它的大门
14day after day for close to seven decades.日复一日,近七十年来。
15That man is Warren Buffett.那个人是沃伦·巴菲特
16As of this summer,从今年夏天开始
17Forbes pegged his fortune at roughly $147 billion.福布斯将他的财富固定在1,470亿美元左右.
18That's more money than most countries will ever这比大多数国家都多
19see in their national treasuries.参见其国库.
20And yet the internet has spent years telling the same story然而互联网却花了数年时间讲述同样的故事
21about him.关于他。
22That he lives like he's poor.他活得像穷人一样
23That he's a billionaire who acts like a pensioner他是一个亿万富翁 行为像一个退休者
24clipping coupons at the kitchen table.在厨房桌边剪票
25It's a great story.说法妙法.
26It spreads because it feels almost它传播是因为它感觉几乎
27impossible.绝对不可能
28So let's do what almost nobody does with it.所以,让我们做几乎没人做它。
29Let's go through it piece by piece,让我们逐片地通过它,
30receipt by receipt, and find out how much of the legend is real and how much has been quietly凭收据收到 找出传说中有多少是真实的 有多少是悄悄的
31exaggerated along the way.沿途夸张.
32Start with the house.始从宅起.
33Because everything in this story circles back to因为这个故事里的一切 都回到了
34it.这个
35In 1958, a 27-year-old Buffett bought a five-bedroom home in central Omaha for $31,500,1958年,一位27岁的巴菲特以31,500美元的价格在奥马哈市中心购买了一间五间卧室的住宅.
36adjusted for inflation.按通货膨胀调整。
37CNBC put that at around $329,000 in today's money.CNBC说今天的钱是329,000美元
38It wasn't a shack even连小屋都不是
39back then, but it wasn't a palace either.当时,但它也不是一个宫殿。
40According to Alice Schroeder's authorized biography,根据爱丽丝·施罗德授权的传记
41The Snowball, Buffett grumbled about the purchase so much that he gave it a nickname,雪球,巴菲特 抱怨购买这么多 他给了它一个昵称,
42Buffett's Folly.巴菲特的福乐。
43In his head, $31,500 wasn't $31,500.在他的脑中,31500美元不是31500美元.
44It was all the money that some could这是所有的钱,一些人可以
45have become if he'd invested it and let it compound for decades.已经变成如果他投资 并让它复合几十年。
46It took his wife Susan是他老婆苏珊
47to persuade him to buy it at all.说服他买下它
4868 years later, he never left.68年后,他从未离开.
49He still lives there at 96.他还住在那里96。
50The house sits about five minutes' drive from Berkshire Hathaway's headquarters,房子坐着大约5分钟 从伯克郡Hathaway的总部,
51and Berkshire itself has described his office as being about two miles away.而伯克郡自己也形容他的办公室在两英里之外.
52His commute is他的通勤情况是
53shorter than most people's walk to a bus stop.比大多数人步行去公交车站还要短.
54What's that house worth now?那房子现在值多少钱?
55According to根据
56Zillow's estimate, about $1,372,200.齐洛的估计,约为1,372,200美元.
57That's nearly 44 times what he paid.这是他付的近44倍。
58Once you adjust for inflation, though, the real gain is only a little more than fourfold.但是,一旦你适应通货膨胀, 真正的收益就只有四倍多一点。
59For a man whose company compounded at a pace that made Wall Street dizzy,对于一个男人来说,他的公司 复杂的速度使华尔街头晕,
60that's a pretty ordinary return.这是一个相当普通的回报。
61Buffett knows this better than anyone, and in 2010 he said so巴菲特比任何人都清楚这一点,2010年,他这么说
62to his shareholders in writing.写给他的股东
63In that year's letter, he offered a confession that sounds在当年的信中,他提出一个听起来很...
64almost funny coming from him.从他嘴里说来 几乎很有趣
65All things considered, the third best investment I ever made was the purchase of my home,想想看,我所做的第三个最佳投资 就是买下我的家
66though I would have made far more money had I instead rented and used the purchase money我本来可以赚更多钱的 如果我租了,用那笔钱
67to buy stocks.买股票。
68His third best.他的第三战绩
69And what were the first two?头两个是什么?
70His wedding rings.他的结婚戒指。
71Then came the line that tells you how he thinks about money versus life.接下来的台词 告诉你他如何看待金钱与生活
72For the $31,500 I paid我付了31500块
73for our house, my family and I gained 52 years of terrific memories with more to come.为了我们的房子,我的家人和我 得到了52年的美好记忆 还有更多的未来。
74When the BBC's Evan Davis asked him in 2009 why he never moved, Buffett's answer was disarmingly当英国广播公司的埃文·戴维斯(Evan Davis)在2009年问他为什么从未动过时,巴菲特的回答是解除武装.
75simple.很简单
76He said he was happy there, that he'd move if he thought he'd be happier somewhere else,他说他在那里很快乐 如果他觉得自己在别的地方会更快乐
77and that he couldn't imagine having a better house.他无法想象有一个更好的房子。
78There's no grand philosophy of self-denial没有自我否定的大哲学
79in that.在那个。
80It's contentment, plain and simple.它的满足, 简单明了。
81Now hold that thought, because the morning routine现在保持这个想法,因为早上的例行公事
82that starts inside that house is where the legend gets really good.从屋里开始 传奇就传得非常好
83In HBO's 2017 documentary,在HBO的2017年纪录片中,
84Becoming Warren Buffett, the cameras rode along on his short drive to the office.成为沃伦・巴菲特, 摄像头骑着他的短程车去办公室。
85Buffett explained that every morning, while shaving, he'd call out one of three dollar巴菲特解释说,每天早晨,在刮胡子的时候,他会喊出三块钱中的一块钱.
86amounts to his wife.相当于他的妻子。
87$2.61, $2.95 or $3.17.2.61美元,2.95美元或3.17美元。
88She'd place that exact amount in a little cup in his她会把确切的金额 放在一个小杯子在他的
89car.车
90And each number matched one of his three regular McDonald's breakfast orders.每个号码都符合他三次普通麦当劳早餐订单中的一次.
91The cheapest最贱的
92was two sausage patties, which he'd put together himself and wash down with a Coke.是两个香肠馅饼,他自己把香肠馅饼放在一起,然后用可乐冲下来。
93The middle one中间的那个
94was a sausage, egg and cheese.是香肠,鸡蛋和奶酪。
95The top of the menu was a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit.菜单的顶部是培根,鸡蛋和奶酪饼干.
96And here's这里
97part that made the clip famous.片段让片段出名
98On a morning when the stock market was down, he told the camera在股市倒闭的一天早上 他告诉了摄影机
99he'd skip the $3.17 and settle for the $2.95.他会跳过3.17美元 并解决2.95美元。
100A man worth tens of billions of dollars was letting一个价值数百亿的人让
101Wall Street's mood talk him out of 22 cents of breakfast.华尔街的心情让他从22美分的早餐中脱身.
102It's charming, and it's true.迷人而实相.
103But notice但请注意
104something, those prices are from 2016 and 2017.这些价格是2016年和2017年的
105They say nothing about today's menu.他们没说今天的菜单
106And every每个
107post that presents them as current figures is quietly misleading you.作为当前数字的帖子会悄悄地误导你。
108Also, the market-linked而且,市场联系
109ordering is at least partly a bit Buffett performs for the camera.命令至少是Buffett为相机表演的部分动作.
110A joke told by a man who knows一个知道的人说的笑话
111exactly how funny it sounds.听起来很有趣
112We'll come back to what else he was carrying in his wallet during我们再来看看他钱包里还有什么
113those drive-through runs, because it changes the story a little.那些车流会改变故事
114Then there's the drink that goes接下来是饮料
115with the breakfast.早餐的时候
116In 2015, Buffett called Fortune's Patricia Sellers and opened with a line2015年,巴菲特给"财富"的帕特里夏卖家公司打电话,并用线路开张.
117she first assumed was about his stock portfolio.她最初认为是他的股票投资
118I'm one quarter Coca-Cola, he told her.我四分之一可口可乐,他告诉她。
119He meant他是说
120it literally.从字面上说
121If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.如果我每天吃2700卡路里, 四分之一是可口可乐。
122I drink at least我至少会喝酒
123five 12-ounce servings.5个12盎司
124I do it every day.我每天都这样
125He even had a schedule.他甚至有一个时间表。
126I have three cokes during the day我白天有三杯可乐
127and two at night.和两个晚上。
128Regular Coke at the office, Cherry Coke as a treat at home.办公室的普通可乐,樱桃可乐作为家里的消遣.
129When she asked当她问
130how a man in his 80s justified a diet like that, he gave one of the most Buffett answers一个80多岁的男子 如何证明饮食是这样的 他给出了一个最伟大的答案
131imaginable.不可思议.
132I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds.我查了精算表 最低的死亡率是六岁的孩子
133Then,接下来
134for good measure, it's the safest course I can take.为了衡量好,这是最安全的路线,我可以走。
135So far the legend holds up beautifully,至今为止,这个传说 维持得很好,
136but the next piece of evidence is the one people love most, and it's parked in his garage.但下一个证据是人们最爱的 它停在他的车库里
137In 2006, Buffett decided to sell his old car, a 2001 Lincoln Town car.2006年,巴菲特决定出售他的旧车,即2001年的林肯城车.
138It was light gold,这是浅金,
139with barely 14,000 miles on the odometer, and a Kelly Blue book value of about $15,000.和凯莉蓝的书价约15000美元
140He'd stopped driving it after buying a Cadillac DTS, and the car came with a detail almost too他买了一辆凯迪拉克DTS车后就停止了驾驶 车里也几乎还有细节
141perfect to be real.完美的真实。
142His personalized license plate read, Thrifty.他的个性化车牌是读的,Shrifty。
143He put it on eBay for charity,他把它放在eBay的慈善,
144with a signed plaque included and promised to personally pick up the winner at the Omaha包括一个签名牌匾 并承诺亲自去奥马哈接胜者
145airport.机场
146The final bid was $73,200, almost five times what the car was worth.最终出价73200美元,几乎是车价的5倍.
147With the money going有了钱
148to Girls Inc, nine years later, he did it again.在九年后,他又做了一次
149他的2006 Cadillac DTS, 一种金属的比格轿车
150with about 20,000 miles on it, went up on the Omaha auction site Proxibit, a car valued at在奥马哈拍卖场上 一辆价值2万英里的汽车
151$12,000, sold for $122,500, with the proceeds going to Girls Inc of Omaha, a charity his late12,000美元,以122,500美元的价格售出, 收入流向奥马哈的Girls Inc,一个慈善机构 他的晚期
152first wife had helped found.第一任妻子帮助找到了
153Its replacement was a new Cadillac XTS.它的取代者是新的凯迪拉克XTS.
154A switch CNN reported came,CNN的开关报告来了
155after a conversation with General Motors CEO Mary Barra, about what a new car could offer him.在和通用汽车公司首席执行官玛丽·巴拉谈过后 说说新车能给他什么
156Do the math on that pattern.按这个模式算
157He drives each car for roughly five to eight years and barely puts他每辆车都开5到8年 几乎没开过
158miles on it.数英里
159Then, instead of trading it in, he turns it into a fundraiser that brings in然后,他没有把它交易出去, 而是把它变成一个募捐者,带来
160five to ten times its book value.5到10倍于其账面价值.
161Keep going, and it gets even more old-fashioned.继续走,它会变得更老套
162For years,多年来,
163the man whose company became one of Apple's biggest shareholders carried a cheap Samsung那个公司成为苹果公司最大股东的人 带着一个便宜的三星
164flip phone.翻转电话。
165Only in February 2020, at 89, did he announce on CNBC that the flip phone was直到2020年2月89时,他才在CNBC上宣布翻转的手机是:
166永久失效,改为iPhone 11.
167Even then, he explained that he used it just即便如此,他解释 他只是用它
168to make phone calls, and that Tim Cook was among the people who had given him iPhones over the提姆·库克是给过他iPhone的人之一
169years.岁月
170Then there's his paycheck.还有他的薪水
171Berkshire's own SEC filing states it plainly.Berkshire自己的证监会档案 明确声明它。
172Mr. Buffett's巴菲特先生的电话
173annual compensation has been $100,000 for more than 40 years.40多年来,年度补偿为10万美元。
174The board's compensation committee赔偿委员会的赔偿委员会
175hasn't proposed a raise since it was created in 2004, and the filing gives the reason.自2004年创立以来 就一直没有提议加薪 档案给出了理由
176Due to Mr. Buffett's desire that his compensation remain unchanged, a tiny house by billionaire由于Buffett先生希望他的赔偿保持不变 亿万富翁的一栋小房子
177standards, a fast food breakfast, a thrifty license plate, a flip phone, and the same salary for four标准,快餐早餐, 节俭的车牌,翻转的电话, 四个人的工资相同
178decades.数十年。
179If you stopped the story right here, you'd swear the internet got it exactly right.如果你在这里停止报道, 你会发誓,互联网得到了它完全正确。
180But look closer at that $100,000 salary.但仔细看看那10万美元的工资。
181There's a second number sitting right next to it in the旁边还有第二个号码
182filing, and it's much bigger.存档,它更大。
183It's the first crack in the legend, the luxury's nobody mentions.这是传说中的第一个裂缝,奢侈品没人提到.
184Berkshire's 2026 proxy statement shows something the viral posts almost never mention.Berkshire2026代理声明显示病毒帖几乎从未提及的东西.
185In 2025,2025年时,
186Buffett's total compensation was $389,488, down from $405,111 the year before.巴菲特的赔偿总额为389,488美元,低于前一年的405,111美元.
187His salary was still他的薪水没变
188the same $100,000.同样的10万美元。
189So where did the other few hundred thousand dollars come from?其他几十万元是从哪里来的?
190Security.警卫
191Berkshire pays for personal and home security services for Buffett.伯克郡为巴菲特支付个人和家庭保安服务费.
192According to the 2025根据2025年
193proxy, that bill came to $305,111 in 2024.代理,2024年的账单达到305,111美元.
194In fact, CNBC noted that the entire drop in his pay from事实上,CNBC指出,他的工资完全从
195one year to the next was due to Berkshire paying less for that security.接下来的一年 是因为伯克郡的安保费少了
196The board treats this as董事会视此为
197a legitimate business expense.合法商业开支。
198Reasoning that he spends a great deal of his time at home working是因为他花了很多时间在家里工作
199on Berkshire matters.关于伯克郡的事
200That's fair enough.这很公平
201And nobody sensible would begrudge a 96-year-old没有人会抱怨一个96岁的孩子
202billionaire protection.亿万富翁的保护。
203But think about what it means for the story.但是想想这对故事的意义
204That modest house on the那个谦虚的房子
205corner lot has professional security.角楼有专业保安
206That almost nobody else in the neighborhood has.这附近几乎没人有
207The modesty is real, so is the protection around it.谦者实也,周围之保护也.
208There's another popular headline that twists还有一个流行的头条曲折
209this filing.这个档案。
210The claim that Buffett gives half his salary back.声称巴菲特还了一半的工资.
211What actually happens is less poetic.实际发生的情况不是那么诗意.
212Buffett sometimes uses Berkshire staff or has the company cover small personal costs like postage,巴菲特有时会使用伯克郡的工作人员,或者让公司支付邮资等小额个人费用,
213and then he pays the company back.然后他还公司钱
214In 2024, he reimbursed Berkshire $50,000.2024年,他偿还了伯克郡5万美元.
215It's a reimbursement for personal expenses, not a salary give back.这是个人开支的报销,不是薪水还给.
216And that salary means薪水意味着
217something different once you look at who replaced him.你一看谁来代替他 就不一样了
218When Greg Abel became CEO,当格雷格·阿贝尔成为首席执行官时
219Berkshire paid him $22 million for 2025, which is roughly 220 times Buffett's salary.伯克郡为他支付了2025年的2200万美元,约为巴菲特薪水的220倍.
220Berkshire has never been cheap with its top people.伯克郡从来就不便宜其顶级人物.
221The $100,000 was a personal choice by十万元是个人的选择
222one man.一个人
223And a symbolic one.还有象征意义
224Because his wealth has always lived in his Berkshire stock,因为他的财富一直住在他的伯克郡股票里
225not in any paycheck.不在任何薪水。
226Now go back to that breakfast.现在回去吃早餐吧
227Remember the exact change in the little cup?记得小杯子里的具体变化吗?
228In a 2007 CNBC interview, Buffett showed off a McDonald's gold card.在2007年的CNBC采访中,巴菲特展示了一张麦当劳的金牌.
229He explained that it他解释说
230eat free at any McDonald's in Omaha for the rest of his life.在奥马哈的任何麦当劳免费吃他的余生.
231And joked that this was why the Buffett开玩笑说这就是巴菲特的原因
232family had Christmas dinner at McDonald's.家人在麦当劳吃过圣诞晚餐
233So the exact change ritual isn't a necessity.所以,确切的改变仪式不是必须的.
234It's a habit performed by a man who technically didn't need to pay at all.这习惯是由一个在技术上根本不需要付钱的人所表现的.
235It's still endearing,感觉还不错
236but it isn't hardship.但这不是困难。
237Then there's the second house.后有二门.
238In 1971, at the urging of his first wife1971年,在第一任妻子的催促下
239Buffett bought a vacation home in Emerald Bay, a gated enclave next to Laguna Beach, California,巴菲特在翡翠湾买了个度假住宅, 位于加利福尼亚州拉古纳海滩旁边的一个有大门的飞地,
240for $150,000.15万块
241This was no shed on the sand.这不是沙子上的棚子。
242CNBC described it as a six-bedroom,CNBC形容它是一个6个卧室,
243seven-bathroom home of about 3,600 square feet, just steps from the Pacific Ocean.大约3600平方英尺的七间洗手间 从太平洋走过来
244The family spent summers there, and Christmas holidays too.家人在那里度过夏天,圣诞节也在那里度过.
245Bloomberg reported that Buffett would hole up in the master bedroom over Christmas,彭博社报道说巴菲特会在圣诞节时躲在主卧室里
246writing his famous annual letter to Berkshire shareholders.写他给伯克郡股东的著名年度信
247At one point, he even bought the有一次,他甚至买了
248neighboring property, which he said became kind of the annex, before selling it in 2005.他说,在2005年出售之前,邻居的房产变成了附属物。
249He kept他坚持
250the main beach house for nearly five decades.近五十年的主要海滩住宅
251In February 2017, he listed it for $11 million.2017年2月,他以1100万美元上市.
252It sat on the market.它坐在市场上。
253He cut the price to $7.9 million, and in October 2018,他将价格削减到790万美元,2018年10月,
254it finally sold for around $7.5 million.最终以750万美元左右的价格出售.
255That timing matters, because you'll often see the那个时机很重要,因为你经常看到
256claim that Buffett sold the Laguna house around 2024.声称巴菲特在2024年左右卖掉了拉古纳的房子.
257He didn't.他没有。
258He sold it in 2018, when he was他在2018年卖了,当时他
25988.88个
260He also took a steep discount from his original asking price and still walked away他还从他最初的价钱里拿了一笔高额的折扣 还走开
261with roughly 50 times what he paid.他付了大约50倍的钱
262As the Wall Street Journal pointed out at the time,正如华尔街日报当时指出,
263it was a perfect illustration of a line he'd written to his investment partners back in 1963.这是他1963年写给投资合伙人的线条的完美插图
264Never count on making a good sale.永远不要指望做一个好买卖。
265Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a买价这么有吸引力吗?
266mediocre sale gives good results.平庸的销售效果不错.
267But set the investment genius aside for a second,但把投资天才放在一边
268and look at the plain facts.看清楚事实
269A multi-million dollar oceanfront vacation home in a guardgated一间保安的海滨度假屋 价值数百万美金
270enclave kept for 47 years is a genuine luxury.飞地保留了47年 是一种真正的奢侈
271It's the clearest counter example to the idea这是这个想法最明显的反例
272that Buffett lives like he's poor.巴菲特活得像个穷人
273And it's not even the biggest one.这甚至不是最大的一个。
274The biggest one flies.最大的一个飞。
275In 1986, after Berkshire's net worth jumped by about 48% in a single year,1986年,贝克郡的网络价值在一年中猛增了约48%,
276Buffett picked up the phone and called his friend Walter Scott Jr. His question was how on earth he巴菲特拿起电话打给朋友小沃尔特·斯科特 他的问题是他到底怎么了
277justify buying himself a plane.为自己买飞机辩护
278Scott's reply has become legendary.斯科特的回复变得传奇.
279Warren, you don't justify it,沃伦,你没有证明
280you rationalize it.你把它合理化了。
281Buffett took the advice and, as Schroeder wrote, sheepishly spent $850,000巴菲特接受了这个建议,正如施罗德所写,绵羊花了85万美元
282on a used Falcon 20 jet.在一架老鹰20喷射机上
283Schroeder captured how big a leap that was for him.施罗德抓住了对他来说有多大的飞跃.
284For Buffett,对于巴菲特,
285it was like leaping in one bound over Mount Kilimanjaro to go from justifying 25 cents它就像跳跃在一个束缚 在乞力马扎罗山 从证明25美分
286for a phone call to rationalizing two pilots and an entire airplane.给两个飞行员和整个飞机打电话
287Once he'd crossed that line,一旦他越过那条线
288he kept going.他继续前进。
289In 1989, he sold the first jet and spent $6.7 million on a different used one,1989年,他出售了第一架喷气机,花费了670万美元在另一架使用过的喷气机上,
290and he confessed the whole thing in his shareholder letter.他在股东信中承认了一切
291He joked that shareholders他拿股东开玩笑
292might understandably panic if the cost of his upgrades kept multiplying like bacteria.如果他的升级成本像细菌一样不断增加的话,也许会感到恐慌。
293His partner Charlie Munger apparently objected to the comparison, on the grounds that it was他的搭档Charlie Munger显然反对这一比较,理由是:
294unfair to the bacteria.对细菌不公平
295He gave the plane a name that was almost a confession, The Indefensible.他给飞机起了一个几乎是忏悔的名字,即"无法辩驳".
296Years later, having gotten comfortable with the convenience, he quietly renamed it The Indispensable.几年后,在得到方便后,他悄悄地把它改名为"无所不能".
297Those two names tell you most of what you need to know about how the habit went.这两个名字告诉你你需要知道的大部分 关于习惯是如何发生的。
298Today,今天,我们...
299he doesn't own a jet outright.他没有直升飞机
300Berkshire's 2026 proxy states that Buffett is personally伯克郡2026年代理商称巴菲特是个人
301a fractional NetJets owner who pays standard rates and that he doesn't use company-owned一个分数的NetJets所有者 谁支付标准费率 他不使用公司拥有
302aircraft for personal travel.私人旅行飞机。
303不巧的是,NetJets是Berkshire的一家公司,但结论是
304is unavoidable.这是不可避免的。
305Private aviation is one of the most expensive luxuries a person can buy,私人航空是个人最贵的奢侈品之一
306and Buffett has used it for four decades.巴菲特已经用了40年了
307Then there's what he wears.后有他所着.
308For years, Buffett was known for rumpled, ill-fitting suits.多年来,巴菲特以粗糙,不合适的西装著称.
309Then in 2007, on a trip然后在2007年,在一次旅行中
310to Dalian, China, for the opening of a metals factory tied to Berkshire, he answered a knock给中国大连开了一家金属厂 和伯克郡有联系
311at his hotel door and found two Chinese tailors who measured him in about eight minutes.在他的酒店门口,发现了两名中国裁缝,他们在大约8分钟内测量了他.
312Three weeks later, back in Omaha, two custom-made suits arrived that fit him like a second skin.三周后,回到奥马哈,两件定制西装运抵,像第二只皮肤一样适合他.
313The tailors worked for Dalian Dayang Trans, founded by Lee Gillian, known as Madame Lee,裁缝在大连大连大连横店工作,由李吉良创办,人称李夫人.
314a farmer's daughter who started with a single sewing machine.一个农民的女儿,从一个缝纫机开始。
315You may see her called Dennis你可能会看到她叫丹尼斯
316Lee online.李在线.
317That name doesn't appear in any reputable source.这个名字没有出现在任何有声誉的来源中.
318By 2009, Fortune reported到2009年,财富报
319that Buffett owned nine Dayang suits and a tuxedo, all handmade from fine Italian wool,巴菲特拥有九件达扬西装和一件礼服 都用意大利羊毛做的
320and noted that his closet used to include suits from the Italian luxury house他的衣柜里有意大利豪华屋的西装
321Ermenageldo Zegna.额尔梅纳盖尔多·泽格纳.
322By 2017, he said he had about 20 of them.至2017年,他表示拥有约20种.
323And the price?价钱呢?
324Madame Lee reportedly refuses to charge him.据报道,李夫人拒绝对他提出起诉。
325The suits are gifts.衣服是礼物
326That makes them evidence of his这让他们能证明他
327fame, not proof that he lives without luxury.而不是证明他没有奢侈生活
328So here's where we are.这就是我们的位置
329A beach house kept for一个海边的房子,为
330nearly half a century, four decades of private flying, Berkshire paid security, a closet of将近半个世纪,40年的私人飞行, 伯克郡支付安全,
331hand-tailored suits, and a card for free fast food for life.手工配制的西装 还有终身免费快餐的卡片
332None of that belongs in a story这些都不属于一个故事
333about someone who lives like he's poor.关于一个像他一样穷的人
334And yet, stand him next to other billionaires and something然而,站在其他亿万富翁旁边
335stays true.保持真实。
336He has one house, no yacht, and no private island.他有一个房子,没有游艇,也没有私人岛屿。
337And the most revealing part of和最揭示的部分
338this story isn't what he bought.这个故事不是他买的
339It's the strange way he thinks about every dollar before he spends这是奇怪的方式,他想 每块钱之前,他花
340it.这个
341That habit started when he was a little boy.那习惯始于他小时候
342And it explains the last and most surprising part这解释了最后最令人惊讶的部分
343of this story, where all those billions are actually going.这个故事,所有那些亿 真正去的地方。
344To understand Warren Buffett's为了理解沃伦·巴菲特
345spending, you have to understand a haircut.花,你必须明白一个发型。
346According to The Snowball, a young Buffett could根据雪球,一个年轻的巴菲特可以
347sometimes be heard muttering to himself, Do I really want to spend $300,000 for this haircut?有时候别人会听到自己在胡言乱语, 我真的想花30万来剪头发吗?
348He never paid $300,000 for a haircut.他从来没有支付30万美元 理发。
349He wasn't losing his mind either.他也没疯
350As the作为
351Wall Street Journal's Jason Zweig explained, Buffett saw any money he couldn't invest as money that"华尔街日报"的杰森·兹威格(Jason Zweig)解释道,巴菲特看到了任何他不能投资的钱,作为钱
352would never grow.永远不会成长。
353So every dollar spent today carried a huge future price.因此,今天花费的每一美元 都带来了巨大的未来代价。
354A few dollars at几块钱
355the barber in his head were hundreds of thousands of dollars given up decades later because they他脑子里的理发师数十万元 几十年后就放弃了,因为他们
356never got the chance to compound.从来没有机会复合。
357He'd absorbed this idea as a child.他从小就接受这个想法
358Around age 10, he read a10岁左右,他读到
359book about how to make $1,000 and worked out that $1,000 earning 10% a year would grow to almost关于如何赚1000元的书 并研究出1000元 一年赚10% 将增长到几乎
360$117,400 in 50 years.五十年计117400元.
361He later recalled telling himself, That's where the money is.他后来回忆说,钱就在那里。
362Once you see一旦你看见
363money that way, the rest of his life starts to make sense.这样的钱,他的余生开始有意义。
364And he started acting on it very early.他很早就开始行动了
365As a little boy, Buffett sold packs of gum and then moved on to selling Coca-Cola door to door,作为一个小男孩,巴菲特卖 包口香糖,然后转到卖 可口可乐门到门,
366because the margins were better.因为边际比较好
367At 13, with his father serving in Congress, he woke at 4.30 in the13岁时,他的父亲在国会任职, 他醒来时是4:
368morning to deliver the Washington Post and challenged himself to speed up his route through早上送《华盛顿邮报》 挑战自己加快行程
369five buildings.5栋楼
370He didn't stop at newspapers.他没有停在报纸上。
371He tracked which household's magazine subscriptions他追踪了哪家杂志的订阅情况
372were expiring and sold them renewals on the side, along with calendars.并出售了续订的日历
373That route reportedly earned那条路线据说是赚来的
374him around $175 a month, more than his teachers made.他每月约175美元 比老师赚的还要多
375At 17, he bought an old pinball machine17岁时,他买了一台旧弹球机
376for $25 and cut a friend in on a partnership.25美元 和一个朋友合作
377He pitched barbers on letting him put the machine他让理发师让他把机器放进去
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379Operated Machine Company.运营机器公司.
380The machine brought in $4 on its first night.机器在第一晚上带来了4美元。
381He reinvested and kept going他重新投资,继续走
382until he had a small fleet, then sold the business for over $1,000 after about a year.直到他拥有一支小型的舰队,然后在大约一年后以超过1000美元的价格出售了这个企业.
383All that hustle added up to $5,000 by his teens, or about $53,000 in today's money.他的十几岁时赚了5000美元, 也就是今天的53,000美元。
384He had grown up in the Great Depression, and for him, every dollar he didn't spend was ammunition他在大萧条时期长大, 对于他来说,他没有花的每一块钱都是弹药
385for the next deal.下一个交易。
386That's the key to the whole story.这是整个故事的关键。
387Buffett's frugality was never really about巴菲特的节俭从来没有真正 关于
388going without.没有。
389It was about keeping capital free to compound.这是关于保持资本自由 大院。
390And as the fortune grew into something随着财富的成长
391almost unimaginable, the thing he actually loves most turned out to cost almost nothing.几乎无法想象,他最爱的东西 结果几乎一文不值。
392That thing is bridge.那东西是桥
393In a 2017 interview with the Washington Post, he put it simply,在2017年华盛顿邮报的采访中,他简单地说,
394I play a lot.我经常玩
395At least four sessions a week, about two hours a session.每周至少举行四届,每届约两小时.
396He explained why it他解释了为什么
397gets old.变老了
398You can play a hand every six or seven minutes every day for the rest of your life,你可以在你的余生中每天每六七分钟玩一只手,
399and you will never see the same hand.你将永远看不到同样的手。
400One of his regular partners online is Bill Gates,他的固定搭档之一是比尔·盖茨
401and Buffett has joked that bridge is probably the only game in the world where he has a slight edge巴菲特开玩笑说 桥可能是世界上唯一一个 他有微弱优势的游戏
402over his friend.为了他的朋友
403So we have a man who can buy anything and chooses to spend his hours on a所以,我们有一个男人 谁可以买任何东西 选择花他的时间在一个
404card game.纸牌游戏。
405What does he plan to do with the money he doesn't spend?他打算怎么处置他不花的钱?
406The answer starts with his答案是从他的
407Back in 1986, he told Fortune that setting up heirs with a lifetime supply of food stamps,1986年,他告诉"福通" 设立继承人 提供终身粮票,
408just because they came out of the right womb, could be harmful, and even called it an anti-social act.可能有害 甚至称之为反社会行为
409His ideal amount to leave children was enough money so that they would feel they could do他离开孩子的理想金额 足够让他们觉得自己可以这么做
410anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.但并不太多 他们什么也做不了
411His youngest son Peter, a musician,他最小的儿子彼得 音乐家
412later told NPR that his father once turned down his request for a loan in his 20s.后来告诉NPR,他的父亲曾经在20多岁的时候拒绝了他的贷款请求.
413The real support, Peter said, didn't come in the form of a check,真正的支持,彼得说, 不是以支票的形式来的,
414that support came in the form of love and nurturing and respect for us finding our way.支持的形式是爱 培养和尊重我们找到我们的道路。
415That doesn't mean the fortune skips the family.这并不意味着财富会跳过家庭
416It means the family's job is to give it away.谓 眷属之职,以施之.
417In 2006, Buffett pledged most of his Berkshire stock to five foundations.2006年,巴菲特将他大部分的伯克郡股票承诺给了五个基金会.
418The largest share went to the Gates Foundation, and the rest went to four family foundations.最大份额投向盖茨基金会,其余则投向四个家族基金会.
419The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for his late first wife,苏珊·汤普森·巴菲特基金会 以已故第一任妻子的名字命名
420plus foundations run by each of his three children.加上他三个孩子各自经营的基金会
421Every summer, the gifts arrived,每年夏天,礼物都到
422often worth billions.常值数十亿.
423Over the years, the Gates Foundation alone received more than $47 billion多年来,仅盖茨基金会就收到470多亿美元
424worth of Berkshire stock.贝克郡的股票
425Then, 2026 brought a sharp break with that pattern.之后,2026年与该图案发生了尖锐的突破.
426In early July,7月初,我们...
427the Wall Street Journal reported that Buffett was holding back his scheduled donation to the Gates《华尔街日报》报道说,巴菲特 拖延了对盖茨的捐赠
428Foundation, while a law firm reviewed the charity's past ties to Jeffrey Epstein.基金会,同时一家律师事务所审查了慈善机构过去与杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的关系.
429On July 14, Berkshire announced the year's gift, and for the first time since 2006,7月14日,伯克郡宣布了当年的礼物,也是自2006年以来第一次.
430the Gates Foundation was left out entirely.盖茨基金会被完全排除在外。
431Instead, nine million Class B shares went to反之,九百万B级股票
432the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and one million each went to the Sherwood Foundation,苏珊·汤普森·巴菲特基金会 每人有100万去雪伍德基金会
433the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, and the Novo Foundation.霍华德·G·巴菲特基金会和诺沃基金会。
434Forbes valued the whole gift at福布斯珍视整个礼物
435$6 billion.60亿元.
436He also set a deadline, and that's the part that stops you.他也设定了期限 这也是阻止你的原因
437Under the old plan, his three children would distribute the remaining fortune within 10根据旧计划,他的三个孩子 将在10年内分配剩下的财富
438years after his death.在他死后数年
439Now the clock runs to a fixed date, whether he's here or not,现在,钟运行到固定的日期, 无论他是否在这里,
440as he put it.就像他说的
441Think about what that means.想想这是什么意思
442The Associated Press put his remaining Berkshire stock美联社把他剩下的伯克郡股票
443at more than $140 billion.超过1400亿美元。
444All of it is set to leave his hands, headed to charity through所有这一切注定要离开他的双手, 走向慈善通过
445foundations his children run, within about eight years.他的孩子在8年左右的时间内运作。
446His life at Berkshire has been他在伯克郡的一生
447down on a similar schedule.在类似的时刻表。
448He stepped down as CEO at the end of 2025, and Greg Abel took over.他在2025年底辞去CEO职务,格雷格·阿贝尔接任.
449Then on September 18, 2026, just weeks after he turned 96, Berkshire announced that Buffett2026年9月18日 贝克希尔在96岁后 宣布巴菲特
450had been named chairman emeritus, effective immediately, and that his son Howard, a Berkshire他的儿子霍华德是伯克郡人
451director since 1993, had been elected chairman of the board.自1993年以来,主任一直当选为董事会主席。
452Warren stays on as a director.沃伦继续当导演
453In the letter he wrote to shareholders that day, he laid out the new division of labor他在当天给股东的信中,阐述了新的分工
454in a few plain sentences.在几句话里
455Greg runs the company.格雷格经营公司。
456Howard will guard its culture and values,霍华德会保护它的文化和价值观,
457both worth more than anything on our balance sheet.都比我们资产负债表上的任何东西都值钱
458Think of Howard as a policy the shareholders own将霍华德视为股东拥有的政策
459and hope never to claim against.并且希望永远不要反对
460And then, with the dry wit he's used for 60 years,然后,用他60年的干劲
461he acknowledged the obvious.他承认这很明显。
462Father time always wins, adding, he has however been父亲的时间总是赢 加上,他一直
463generous with me.宽宏大量
464So does Warren Buffett live like he's poor?沃伦·巴菲特像穷人一样生活吗?
465The evidence says otherwise.证据是相反的
466He flew private for 40 years, in a plane he himself called the Indefensible.他私自飞了40年,在飞机上,他自己称之为"不守法者".
467He kept a他留着一个
468multi-million dollar beach house for nearly half a century.将近半个世纪的几百万美元海滩房屋。
469He has professional security paid for他付了职业安全费
470by Berkshire, and a closet full of hand-tailored suits he never had to pay for.由伯克郡, 和衣柜满 手制的西装 他从来没有支付。
471But the legend但传说
472isn't a lie either.也不是一个谎言。
473He really does live in the house he bought for $31,500 in 1958.他确实住在他1958年买下31500美元的房子里.
474He really did take the same $100,000 salary for more than 40 years.他的薪水也一样 超过40年了
475He really does keep his cars他真的留着他的车
476until they're practically antiques and then sell them for charity at many times their value.直到它们几乎是古董 并出售给慈善机构 价值的很多倍。
477And he really does drink five cokes a day and eat like a six-year-old because he likes it.他确实每天喝五杯可乐 吃起来像六岁的孩子 因为他喜欢它。
478The truth sits somewhere more interesting than either extreme.真相比极端更有趣
479Warren Buffett doesn't沃伦·巴菲特不会
480live like he's poor.活得像个穷人一样
481He lives like someone who simply doesn't want very much,他的生活就像一个人 谁只是不想太多,
482and who figured out long ago that money can be counted in two ways.谁早就想通了 钱可以用两种方式计算
483One is what it buys you一是它给你买的
484today.今时.
485The other is what it could become, or who it could help if you leave it alone.另一种是它会变成什么, 或谁可以帮助 如果你离开它一个人。
486For most of his life, Buffett chose the second way.在他一生的大部分时间里,巴菲特选择了第二种方式.
487And now, at 96, he's giving nearly all of而现在,96岁,他给了几乎所有
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